Registered Nursing: associate degree records.

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Official classification: Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse.

A program that generally prepares individuals in the knowledge, techniques and procedures for promoting health, providing care for sick, disabled, infirmed, or other individuals or groups. Includes instruction in the administration of medication and treatments, assisting a physician during treatments and examinations, Referring patients to physicians and other health care specialists, and planning education for health maintenance.

Check the exact nursing qualification, entry route and the relevant professional authority’s current recognition and licensing requirements. A CIP award record does not establish eligibility for nursing practice.

Confirm whether the institution’s actual degree meets your goal and whether a destination accepts its credits. An associate award does not prove a transfer agreement or coverage of another institution’s bachelor requirements.

Source: connected NCES IPEDS first-major completion records, exact CIP 51.3801, award level 3. This list does not rank institutions or measure admissions capacity.

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